The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-22 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, VEER ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Manatzement of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. llarrison. T HIS' EVENING (10th time) a new Opera, founded on Goldsmith's Comedy, and to be called SII sToops To coNquER. Miss * Louisa Fyne and r. M w. Harrison. fter which, the Burlesque Opening of the Grand National antornime, LIARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND TILE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six—Conunence at Seven. IHEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers., Messrs. Edmond Falconer and I'. B. Cli;ttterton. THIS EVE";ING, the Performances w;11 commence with THE MAN OP THE WORLD. Mr. Phel p s,Ba Mr. G. Z;eville; M:lsses Atkinson, It. Leclercq, and Murray. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime cf SINBAD TILE SAILOR ; or. The Seven -Wonders of. tn.:. World. Clown:. Messrs. 11. Bolen° and C. Lauri ; Barlequins, Messrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons, Messrs. IV A. Barnes and J. inorris ; Columbines, bladama 1.501er,0 and 74Iisses Gunnies. Prices as usual. Box Cfrice open from 10 till 5 daily. firTIE ATRE ROYAL HAY NI Sole Leesee and Manager, Mr, Rucks tone. THIS EVENING, A KISS IN THE DARK. After which, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER : Messrs. Buckstone, Chippendale, Culleniord, Howe, W. Gordon, Clark, &c.; Mesdames Angel, Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, C. To be followed by LEND hill FIVE SHILLINGS. To conclde with KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and u Knights of the Round Table. Messrs. Chippndale, Compton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &C. Commence at 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, „Led Under the Sole Management of Msr. Fechter. BEL DENIONIO (a Triumphant Succes) will be repeated Every Evening during the Week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a : New ad Orh4lual Fare, THE LOST Messrsn. I. Widdicombe, c Shore,entitledar Gden, F. Charles Collett, Moreland; Dlisses Percy, Pauline Le?lercl, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. Ater which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in TIVCIVC Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chroniclez," by Ur. John Brougham, Principal charac ter by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brough,in, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Si m s ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavers, Mrs. Lee, and 811613 Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either to: play bills or for the safe keeping of hat , , and cloaks, and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-0i:1,:,‘ open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. DI OPAL PitINCESS'S THEATRE.- 0) Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, PAUL'S RETUE.N. After which, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't snow what to do. MEW THEATRE-R 0 YAL, t3oio Propriotor and 111anazar, If:. B. Webster. Vst Week of Miss Bateman. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBILE/IKE 13. Wool,gar and kir. J. L. Toole. to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH Miss Bate- Sinn, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stir lin g , R. Phillips, Bil ington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss IL Simms, and Mrs. Billing,ten. To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio and his Seven Maccio Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, R. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woogar, Miss IC. Kelly, Miss Patti iose2hs, Alias L. Laidlaw, l Miss Seaman. • Commence at 7. LEA H.-EVERY S BATE HAN. NIGHT. ISS BATEMAN.-LEAII.-THIS EVENING, the 122 d appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss AT MEAN, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the principal character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH has been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further notice. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Cro.deel with rank and fashion.—The New Comedy of THE SILVER LINING every Evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Mathews, Mrs. Stirling', Mrs. Frank 3litthews, and L. Toole every evening. The following eminent artistes are engaged :—Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. j. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas. Mathews Mrs. Stirling, Miss Herbert, Mrs, Frank Mat thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Went worth, and Mrs. Charles Matlews. THIS EVF,NING. and during the Week, at 7 o'c'ock, an entirely new Comedy, in 3 Acts, by LAcest2r Bucking hatn,7Esq., entiVed THE SILVER LINING : Mr. Charle Mathews, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr, John s s'one, Mr. Montague ; Mrs. t harles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, IlLss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. •To be followed by Mr, Charles Mathews just translated from the French)in his characterstic character of Un Anglais Timide, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBER. To conclude with 180 ; or. THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON : Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. A. Cottrell, and Miss Fanny Josephs. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, ON AND OFF. To be followed by UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Mr. )cltord, Mr. Parselle ; Miss Marie Wilton, Miss Thorne. After whinh, the Grand Cliri,tmas Dirlesque, ORPHEUS 3ND KURA' ) E : Messrs. Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swr.nblrouql l , Mario Wilton, Ifughcs, Concluding with MARGATE BAND.S. Commence at 7. pia THUD EDITION OF " THE SUN," A. Containing - the Latest S PORTING INTELLIGENCE, fanl.,e bad Every Evening of G. EL GLY,NIE, News AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. COALS. —The LILLESHAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' . — • 265. per ton. Double ..215. per ton, Top 255. „ Nuts. 19.9. „ Deep .• . 225. Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De. Pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf Paddington, W. Best Cole Terms cash. - . JOIIN SCOTT, Sole Agent. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tjn3 DAT.—Morning, 2h. 1532.—Afternoon, 2h. 35m, ro-monnow.-Morning, 2'l. 53o1.—Afternoon, 3h. 331 The Weather—Sun Office, Feb. 22, 1864. TREILMOMETDR. Thia day at Two o'clock 33 - Barometer-29.73. Wind—N,E.; moderate breeze, and foggy. • , SUM • LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 22, 1864. Austria and Prussia, after invading the purely Dinieh province of Jutland, and there retaining their troops during forty-eight hours, quite law , lessly, upon the soil of Denmark Proper have — upon reflection—evacuated it. They still overrun Holstein. They still hold possession of Schleswig as a "material guarantee." Those allied assailants of the sovereign power of King CHRISTIAN IX., and of the independence of the nationality to the vindi- cation of which that monarch haa but so very recently been summoned by the death of his predecessor— Austria and Prussia, in the name of the Germanic Diet, having occupied Holstein and segues strated Schleswig, have planted tai feet of their soldiery f or a while upon the soil of Jutland, only—upon seecnd thoughts—to evacuate that in. varied peninsula. For the advance of the German armies into Holstein, even for their advance into Schleswig, some show of argument might be put forth, in effect has all along been put forth in bold words, by the aeplomatist s and the Governments of the Confederation. But for the still further advance of the Austro-Prussian troops into Jut land no vestige of a plea, even of th e most s h a d owy kind, could by possibility be adduced. It was simply lawless. It was simply a brutal violation of all the most sacred rights of an independent Sovereignty. It was an act admitting of no (=use whatever. It was an Outrage in no Way to be eztennated. The peninsula of Jutland is an integral portion of Denmark Proper. Whatever may be argued about Schleswig or Rol. etsin, s4arately, or about, both of them together, nothing whatever can be said in regard to Jutland, but that it is intensely and essentially Danish throughout, that it is part and parcel of purely Danish tereitory. If the crossing of the Eider, that is, of the southern boundary-line of Schleswig,,by the Austre-Prussian troops, was bad on the part of the two leading Powers of Germany—far worse, far more outrageous, was the course pursued by them last week when the German soldiers advanced still further in their lawless inva sion of the kingdom of Denmark : crossing not the southern but the northern boundary of Schleswig, not the Eider but the Skodborg or Scholborg. So monstrous, so wholly uejust'.fieble, indeed was this proceeding on the part of the assailants and inVaders of Denmark, that even in the British a 5..... , house of Commons, the Prime Minister of a Do-nothing, Non-intervention, Rest-and-be- Thankful, Cabinet was constrained (when goes tioned, point blank, upon the subject) to reprobate the movement as it deserved. Lprd PALMERSTON, it is true, declined to intimate, how ever vaguely or indirectly, what action her MA JESTY'S Government would take thereupon ; or if, indeed, they would be disposed to take any a ion at all under the sting of that la Et and frarcest goad. Nevertheless, while rn,intaining a dogged silenco as to the future policy of the Cabinet, even contingently upon the invasion of J atlancl, the Premier, as only in truth became him under the eircum3tances, designated so very monstrous an invasion as that, in the only terms in chich it admits in any wey of being accurately designated. Whether Jutland had actually been invaded or not, remain: d for a while matter of some uncertainty. It appeared almost a thing incredible—even after all the recent lawless ness of the Germanic Powers in their invasion of Denmark. The announcement of the evacuation of Jutland, however, is, in itself, conclusive. The perpetration of that last and crowning outrage upon the twofold rights of Danish Independence and of the Danish Sovereignty, no longer admitted of being simply hypothetical, when the intelligence CDMES of the actual reversal of the step after two days' interval in that direction, the distinct reversal of it, namely, by the evacuation of that portion of the peninsula. The allies, like Fear in COLLINS'S Ode, have " back recoiled"—but, probably, unlike their prototype, they know full well " why." The occu pation of Jutland could hardly have been regarded apathetically even by the meekest stickler for the principle of Non-intervention, and for that Easy, Dawdling, Da-nothing policy which has grown out of it. Even if Ministers had shown themselves in this matter fain to look on quietly while this last shameful act was being perpetrated by the Austro-Prussian army with impunity, we cln scarcely deem it probable that the Par liament of England would, to that extent at least, have indorsed the non-intervention policy of the Government. The Opposition must then, at length, have been awakened from its protracted torpor. The policy of Ministers must, at last have then necessitated a decisive division for them or against them. Another dilemma has, however, been so far happily tidedlover by the Ministry, thanks to a pru dent afterthought revising the strategic movements of the allies in the seat of this lamentable war in Den. mark. Like the King of France in the old nursery song, marching up the hill and then down again, the German soldiery have entered Jutland for a couple of days—only to evacuate it, however, at the end of the brief interval during which they had thus indulged their insolence as aggressors. So far, their evacuation of Jutland is a concession to public decency. As it is, however, they have out raged all sense of right, and justice, and decorum, before all Europe, by their temporary advance into that purely Danish province of Jutland—as they bad done already, for that matter, by the brutal violence with which, with a force of seventy thousand men, they advanced into Schleswig against Danish forces numerically so insignificant ! Presenting to view, all the while—as they are doing—the spectacle of two of the greatest Powers in Europe banded together for the infliction of a cruel wrong by brutal violence upon a lesser Power ! That lesser Power being, up to this present moment, left completely in the larch by the rest of the Powers (great and small) in Christendom. A matter of considerable provincial importance was discussed on Friday evening in the House of Cemmons, In the lull which is now preceding that political storm which may be safely expected to follow the production of the foreign correspondEnce of our Government, minor topics rise to the surface and occupy a degree of time and attention which would hardly be accorded to them under other cir- cumstances. All parties are resting on their oars, as it were, and have leisure to spare for the consi deration of these internal arrangements which are happily of a more peaceful and satisfactory nature than those of most States. Instead of struggles for supremacy between Crown and Parliament, in place of anxious cogitation over army estimates and de fensive preparations against a foreign foe, or, worse still, to make ready for the sudden emergencies of a desolating civil war, we find our members delibe rating on the rival claims of two country towns to the dignity of the assizes, It may be remembered by our readers that it has been decided to hold a separate commission for the West Riding of York shire, a district whose extent and importance ele vate it almost to the rank of a county. So far back as 1652 the Liw Commission reported in favour of such a proceeding, the report bearing the signatures of several eminent judges. Five years later a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the place Nacre the assize should be held, con sisting of Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, Colonel WILSON PATTEN, the late Speaker, and the ex-Lord Chancel. for as President. This commission were, it seems, unanimous against the selection of Leeds as the assize town; two of the members, Sir J. PAxING• TON and Colonel W. PATTEN being in favour of Wakefield, and the rest opposed to it. The Home Office received the report, but the Government came to no decision on the matter, which wassubmitted to some members of the Privy Council, who gave their opinion in favour of Leeds. AS yet, however, no order has been made upon the subject, and therefore Sir JOHN HAY, in moving for an address to her MAJESTY in favour of Wake field, expressed some hope that he was not too late to obtain the granting of his petition. Accordingly the partisans of Leeds and Wakefield came forward valiantly en behalf of their respective clients, and recounted all their claims to pre-eminence, and rehearsed the arguments in their favour. On behalf of Wakefield, the plaintiff in the cause, it was said that the great majority of the inhabitants, the magistrates, the privy councillors, and the members of the West Riding were on its side. Of 350 magis trates, nearly 200 had expressed themselves in its favour, while only 59 were for Leeds. Its accom modation for judges, juries, and barristers was also stated to be greatly superior to that of its rival, the county building at Wakefield having cost £250,000, whereas a rate must be levied on the county to provide assize courts at Leeds. It was further contended by Sir J. HAY that the selection of Leeds would be a slight to the county town—a somewhat sentimental reason, followed by the weightier argument of the inconvenience of re moving the prisoners, who are all committed to Wakefield before teal, to Leeds for the assize, Mr. LEATIIAII, in a very amusing speech, brought forward a whole catalogue of reasons and ninon etrances, in mingled jest an calms!, in support of the motion. Leeds, ho s a id, was po i eone d b y i ts dense population and its mess of steam machinery. The atmosphere was murky, the vegetation decay ing, the court was the worst place in the world for hearing, and on every ground its claim was insuffi cient. The hon. member drew a laughable pic ture of the surprise and delight of the good citizens of Leeds at the dignity which had come so unexpectedly upon th em , an d now it had been said that tho Ministers heal chosen the town out of regard for the tnernb2r for that borough w;io overawed them by going about "carrying a .4iDgle - bArreled Reform Bill at full cock." Then came the speakers on the other side, foremost among them being the Home Secretary himself. He an nouneei that it was after careful deliberation the committee had come to the concluion that Leeds had the best claim, a decision arrived at without regard to political or private interests, but with the sole view of forwarding the cheap, speedy, and effectual administration of justice: As for the magistrates, he said they were mostly in favour of making no change at all, and their opinion consequently was not of much weight. It remained for Mr. BEECROFT, however, to suns up the case in favour of Leeds, which he did so clearly and conclusively as to lease little to be said by the other party. Leeds is the most populous town in the whole district; it has 270,00 J inhabitants against Waktfield's 20,000, and within a radius of ten miles Leeds numbers 600,000 persons. There aro only eight miles between the two towns, and as Mr. BEECaOFT very justly said, common sense indicates that the small population should go to the larger town, and not the large population to the small town, The great railway companies have chosen Leeds as their general ter minus—an additional proof that it is the natural centre of the Riding. It has no less than 220 trains a-day, while the vast amount of business carried on there naturally gives rise to a large proportion of the assize business, not, as Mr. LEATIIAM jokingly pretended, on account of the greater wickedness of the population, but from * the fair proportion of numbers and opportunities. With regard to the accommodation, it was asserted that Leeds had s‘uperior advantages, and the town had already pur chased land, made contracts for building, and entered into other arrangements for facilitating the business of the assize. On these grounds, therefore, we are not surprised that the House of Commons should have resolved not to interfere with the de cision of the Privy Council, but to let the matter rest in its present position. At this inclement season of the year there can not be too many schemes set on foot for the sue- tour of the poor and homeless. It is to be won dered at that there have not been more efforts made, considering the urgent necessity that exists for some remedial measures. Scarcely a day passes in which some case is not recorded of dreadful destitution and abject misery. People read of these cruel snfferings, and lament the fate of these neglected wanderers on life's highway, but bow 'ew really try t) do anything to put a stop to he recurrence of the calamities I This is the only ;rue way to benefit society, and gradually but surely to introduce a now state of things. There ;s now set on foot a most excellent undertaking, which is to establish " a nightly refuga for Borne of the poor outcasts of the West end of London." The advantages of such a plan are manifold, and it is not likely that the plan can bo otherwise than successful when it is once fairly put into working order. Of course there are many objcc• tions raised against the adoption of the scheme, and all the arguments that have already been worn threadbare are again put into requisition as to the futility of such notions, and the impru dence of doing so much for those who ou g ht to work, but will not. This last pretext afords a very convenient excuse for a greet many refusals to aid and assist the poor and indigent, but a more unfair or unfounded accusation dues not often exist. Only those who have had much ex perience in the workings of existence among the lower orders can enter into the many and great difficulties that ]ay in the way, and altogether impede the course of their employme,nte. Besides, [it sickness or distress has not at the first been the primary agent in throwing a family out of work, and if there is great blame to to be attached to the parties concerned, is it just or reasonable that the families or relatives should be left to starve, while the stern and inflexible lookers-on exclaim—" It serves them right for losing this place and not taking that situation ?" Some people are also very ready to declare that there is already quite enough provision made for the poor; bat how truly may it be retorted that the "parochial authorities are most dilatory, and often put off compliance to the urgent demand until help is too late, and succour unavailing. Until the arrangements for relief at workhouses are very different to what they are at present, there will remain much for private endeavours to accom plish ; and it is the unwillingness to assist that prompts the negative answer that so frequently damps the efforts of the well-meaning and zealous to better the condition of their hapless fellow creatures. At the east end of London an institution of this kind has been established for some time, and has been the means of effecting great good to the classes for whom it was especially designed. This new scheme for forming a "nightly refuge" at the West-end will only cost about £5OO, and will be capable of receiving one hundred inmates of both sexes. These outcasts are provided with food and lodging, and the luxury of a bath. The committee are to be vigilant to guard against deception ; and of course if due precautions are taken the impostors will soon be discovered. Each party is to furnish an account of his previous life; and if it be found that occasion demands it, subsequent steps will be taken to follow up the succour already afforded, by more timely help and more lasting benefits. It is almost impossible to overrate the beneficial and stimulating effects that are produced on the out cast, driven from one place to another refused ad mittance here and told to " move on" there, when admitted into the sheltering preeints of such a " city of refuge." The kindness and attention thus bestowed will never be thrown away, and one of the chief claims which these undertakings can urge to public support, and public favour is that they are often instrumental in arresting the downward pro gress, and in enabling the waverer to keep to the right path. Also they are of service to the large class of unfortunate individuals who, from ignorance and the machinations of others, have been led astray, but who are not by any means confirmed criminals, and may be in a great measure, if not altogether, redeemed from the error of their ways, if only a helping hand is stretched out, and cffi:lent means are employed to rescue them from their perilous poaition. Many of these unhappy beings are driven into the commission of crimes to provide themselves with food and shelter. The law is ready and active to pronounce where they shall not go, and what they must not do, but says nothing as to what spot they may seek to gain a shelter, and how they may provide themselves with food. It is to rectify this anomaly then that these " refuges" are designed, and it will be a scandal to our Christian community if they are not properly supported, and carried on successfully. When it is contemplated how many squander fortunes on trifles, waste fabulous sums on business, and fling away what would save many a family from perishing to pan der to their extravagant fancies, it may well be urged upon them that they may spare a tithe out of their abundance to bestow upon houselcss misery and starving mendicants. The accommodation provided is suitable, and doubt less greatly enjoyed by the recipients, but at the same time it is not of the class or kind that would tempt the undeserving and irreclalrnablo away from the haunts viime they can gain more and be better suited to their tastes. Surely a higher end for human, efforts can hardly bo found 9aan thus to reclaim the erring and relieve the distressed among their fellow creatures, and we know that in some respects this is a practical futilment of the divine inculcation to feed the hungry and take in the stranger. That society cannot be prosperous, cr deserve to be so, where no attempts are made to do something for the class, whose name is legion, who, when night comes, knows not where they shall pass it. It is earnestly to be hoped that the charitable efforts now being made to do something in the good cause will not be unheeded, but that a vigorous support will ensure the success of this and many similar institutions. LATEST INTELLIGENO. 1:Rl UTEIt'S TELEGRAMS.] THE 'WAR IN SCHLESWIG. THE DEMOLITION OF THE DANNEWIRKE. SCHLES WIG, FEB. 21. One hundred sappers have arrived here, and forthwith commenced the razing of the Danne wirke. Four hundred labourers are assisting in the work of demolition. THE WURZBURG CONFERENCE, WURZBURG, FEB. 22. Tho Conference) of Ministers, held in this city, has agreed to the proposition of Saxony, that the minor States should be united in their attitude in the event of the Great German Powers endeavour ing to withdraw forcibly from the Federal Diet, the right of disposing of Holstein. It was also resolved not to sanction any conven lon affecting the rights of the Duchies, and that ,ho Federal Diet alone has to decide on the succes- sion question. The Conference further resolved that more Fede ral troops should be sent to secure Holstein, and that preparations b 3 made for the mobilisation of the armies of the minor States SEIZURE OF A BRITISH STEAMER AT DIAL AGA. MADRID, FEB. 20. The British steamer Princess, which touched at Malaga to take in coal, has been seized by the authorities of that port. It was discovered that she carried in her hold some rifled cannon, muskets, ammunition, and other warlike effects. The seizure was Effected on accounnt of her des tination being unknown. GREECE, TRIESTE, FEB. 20. Advices received here from Athens state that the Greek National Assembly has empowered the Finance Minister to issue credit bonds for 3,000,000 drachmas, which will have a forced currency. Riots have taken place in Athens, owing to the editor of one of the papers having been insulted by the son of Chamberlain Sontzo. The Chamberlain has been dismissed from his pest, as implicated in the affair. Instructions have been sent to the Greek Ambas sador in London to procure a modification of the treaty for the cession of the lonian Islands. PORTUGAL. LISBON, FEB. 15. It is stated that Senhor Antonio Jose d'Avila, lately elevated to the peerage, under the title of Count d'Avila, will bo sent to Paris as Minister Plenipotentiary, the Viscount de Paiva being trans ferred to Madrid. Senhor Soveral, the Minister at Madrid, to remain for the present out of office. It is also added that the Duke de Saldanha, at present Ambassador at Rome, to be transferred to London. Senhor Carlos Ramiro Continho has been created Baron de Barceillinhos. It is said that other nominations are about to bo made. The Di trio publishes the decree giving the con c.sssion to the Portugal Iron and Coal Compzny. FRANCE. GREAT FALL OF SNOW IN FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 22. Telegrams received here announce that enor mous quautitics of snow have fallen in the de partments of lierault, Aude, Ardeche, Rhone, and Drome, and that the railway traffic is interrupted in consequence. BOURSE, Feb. 20.—Stock has been rather offered since the commencement of business, and prices have kept gradually receding. Threes, for the Account, a:e now at 66f. 40c. Mobilier also show lower quotations, the present rate being 1,042 f. 50c The Railway Market has been without much ani• mation, and prices rema variation. The market lel 41 per Cents. 95 60 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6O 35 Credit Mobilier 1042 50 Do, end month 1042/ Bank Shares 3290 Credit Fonder 1275 Roman .. — in without any material 't off as follows : Italian Loan 67 90 Do. end month — New ditto — Do. end month — Russian Austrian .. Hanish Threes 51 25 ome Debt .. — Deferred RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lOO6 1005 Northern Now ditto Lyons and 111editGrranean 933 75 .. 935 New ditto . S Rithern 657 50 .. 658 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard North of Spain Saragossa .. Ditto to Barcelona .... 300 .. 300 -- Peace Propositions in the Confederate Congress. (From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 8.) Tha following extraordinary resolutions were yesterday introduced in the House of Representa tives by Mr. Wright, of Georgia. The house went into secret session before taking any action upon them Whereas, the President of the United States in a late public communication, did declare that no propositions for peace had been made to that Government by the Confede rate States, • when, in truth, such propositions were pre vented from being made by the President of the United States in that he refused to hear, or even to receive, two commissioners appointed to treat expressly of the preserva tion of amicable relations between the two Governments. Nevertheless, that the Confederate States may stand jus• titled in the sight of the conservative men of the North of all parties, and that the world may know which of the two Governments it is that urges on a war unparalleled for the fierceness of the conflict, and intensifying into a sectional hatred unsurpassed in the annals of mankind. Therefore Resolved, —That the Confederate States invito the U n it e d States, through their Government at Washington, to meet them by r epresentatives equal to their representa tives and senators in their respeetive Congress at ,on the day of next, to consider, I. Whether they cannot agree upon the recognition of the Confederate States of America. 2. In the event of such recognition, whether they cannot agree upon tho formation of a new Government, founded upon the equality and sovereignty of the States; but if this cannot be done, to consider, 3. Whether they cannot agree upon treaties, offensive, defensive, and commercial. Resolved,—In the event of the passage of these resolu- tions, the President be requested to communicate the same to the Government at Washington, in such manner as 12.3 shall deem most in accordance with the usages of nations; and in the event of their acceptance by that Government, he do issue his proclamation of election of delegates, under such regulations as he may deem expedient. WHAT MEANS THIS ?—A very singular scene was exhiibtrd, we are informed by those :present, at the Worcester depot on Sunday evening, upon the arri val of a considerable body of Confederate prisoners under the escort of the Ellsworth Zauave3. Although the hour was late, a largo body of men and boys, amounting to se veral hundreds, had collected around the depot, in antici pation of the arrival of then prisoners, and welcomed them with signficant shouts of sympathy. Tha rush was altogether too powerful for the) escort, which threatened some violence, but scon relinquished the idea upon threats of retaliation, so that the crowd uttered cheers for various distinguished personages in the rebel territory, and the prisoners united iu singing characteristic songs. Some of the prisoners who were ill were taken up by the outsiders and carried along ; many of the crawl were raiogiod up in the ranks 113 the btkly moved through the stret-ta ; nor did 'they abandon their demonstration until the prisoners were fairly delivered up at their quarters,—Boston Courier, Feb, 2, Literary Intelligence. CHIRLES DICKPNS'S FORTHCOMING SERIIL STORY I -The first number of the new novel by the author of "Pickwick," which will appear on the Ist of May, accord ing to announcement, in the two familiar green leaves, in one respect will be different in itsappearance from its famous predecessors. The illustrations, instead of being steel etch ings by 11. K. Browne (Phiz), will be wood engravings by Marcus Stone. _ _ Mn. TENNYSON'S NEW Pont, of " Boadicea," is so far completed that its publication by Messrs. Moxon and Co. may be looked for at an early day. ROBERT BROWNING, another of our few great living poets, has also a now volume of poems nearly ready for the press. A NEW PROTESTANT VERSION OF THE SCRIPTI7RES, now in course of publication at Paris, is termed on the title paget," Traduction nouvelle d'apres les testes Hebreu et Grec, par uno reunion de pasteurs of do ministres des deux Eglises Protestantes nationales de France." JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY, BY It. G. LATHAM (Part I.), will be published by Messrs. Longman and Co. on the 29th inst. Tho work will be continued monthly, and completed in 39 Parts, forming 2 vols. quarto. THACKERAYANA, Mn. THACKERNY'S HOUSE is to be sold. An advertise ment in the papers has caused many hundreds of people to visit the residence of the great humorist. It is said that a sale will be held of the books, furniture, and curiosities early in the coming month. His incomplete posthumous story of "Danis Duval" will bo illustrated with woodcuts drawn by Mr. Walker, the first of them after a design by the author. THE NOVELLETTE, "COUSIN Pilaus," recently pub. :ished in the Cornhill, is understood to b 3 from the pen of Miss Thackeray. IN THE NEW YORK " ALBION" of the 10th of January appeared a biographical sketch of Thackeray by Mr. Sala. THACKERAY AND THE OXFORD "VICE-CIIA.NCELLOR —" Pray what can I do to serve you, sir ?" inquired the bland functionary. "My name is Thackeray." "So I see by this card." "I seek permission to lecture within the pre cincts." ".Ah you aro a lecturer ; what subjects do you undertake—religious or political " Neither ;lam a literary man." " Have you written anything ?" " Yes ; lam the author 'Vanity Fair.' " "I presume a dissenter —has that anything to do with John Banyan's book ?" "Not exactly ; I have also written Penclennis.' " "Never heard of these works; but no doubt they aro proper books.' "I have contributed to Punch. Punch ! I have heard o that; is it not a ribald publication? SHAKSPEREANA, Profiting by the public criticism to which they have been exposed, the Council of the Shakspere Committee, says the Atlancczn, have adopted a self-denying ordinance. Look ing on all sides for an active and popular Executive, for gentlemen who could carry into effect the public desires, they have found them outside their own ranks; and, having found them, they have carried in the General Committee a vote which virtually transfers the leading and active powers of the committee from their own into other hands. This act was wise; and their sharpest critics must allow that it was also unselish. Men who thought more of themselves than of the cause in which they were engaged would, perhaps, have hesitated to do it. Tho Council have been sometimes blamed for alleged self-seeking in this matter; when their faults of the past are tea:leathered in the future, generous men will not forget how readily and gracefully they have now fallen in with what appears to be the wish of their lit erai y brethren. THE GROWTH OF THE COM3IITTEE.—FerdiDaIId Era grath, Esq., Joseph L. Wyon, Esq., German Reed, Erg., S. D. Sassom, E-q , have been elected members of the Na tional Shakspero Committee. Tun SHAKSFEILE - BADGE FOIL THE 23D OF AFRIL.—The riband manufacturers of Coventry have just produced an appropriate decoration to be worn on the days of the ap proaching Shalispere Festival. The badge consists of three leaves. On one is the residence of the poet; on another, the church of Stratford-oat-Avon; and on the third, a por trait of Shakspere (from the Chandos picture)—the three devices being attached by a button, on which are engraved the Shakspero arms and crest. SHAKSPERE A LA. ItussE,—The second edition of a Rus sian translation of Shakspere by M. Ketcher has just been published at Moscow. The first edition, it appears, is out of print. LAXSPERE IN ITALY,—The best tragio actor in Italy, Tommaso Salvini, has been giving a series of performances at the Paganini Theatre at Genoa, and, for his benefit, played his most celebrated part, 0 tello, in an Italian ver sian of our Shakspere's" Othello." William Hunt. the Water Colourist, "A Bunch of May," the property of Mr. Wade, which, while each pearl-hued. petal has every tint and hue of nature, and the most subtle foreshortening of its forms, is, as a whole, a masterpine of composition, not only in massing, but in chiaroscuro and, in its limited scope, in colour. Before us also is " A Study of Hyacinths," drawn with a purity and breadth in treatment of form, such as a Greek painter might envy, solid as a stereoscopic photo graph, finished beyond the dreams of a Dutchman, and incomparably brilliant. There is also a third drawing, " Grapes, Peach, and Plum" (exhibited at the Water • Colour Society's Exhibition, 1860), which glows with Titlanesque ardours, and is as vivid, withal as sweet in tone, as if the fruit it dealt with had ripened in the Golden Age. To him we owe a full recognition of the splendour of colour in common of jects. Who else but Hunt could have painted that " Study of Gold—a Smoked Pilchard " (No. 216, Water-Colour Exhibition, 186 D), which is now in use in our Government Art-Schools as a triumph of colour ? or produced the "Study of Rose-Grey—a Mushroom," which accompanied it ? At the now-open Water-Colour Society's Exhibition is a "Dead Humming-Bird," which glows with turquoise blue, green and gold, and even from the furthest side of the room sparkles marvellouslly. When, at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1855, eleven of the master's works were shown, the acclamations of the French attested, first, the surprise of the critics, and, se condly, their knowledge of Art, As a humorist and deli. neator of character, William Hunt obtained at home a fairer recognition, and those who remember the last ex hibited work of this class, "The Fly-Fisher" (No. 212, Water•Colour Exhibition, 1832), will not withhold from the artist their high admiration. Such admiration was given to the man who painted, with inimitable humour, the stealthy creep of the boy's hand behind, and, as ho thinks, away from the sight of that magnificent blue-bottle, which, if the fisher has his way, will soon be bait irresis tible to certain chub. That boy's eyes, glittering with purpose, his in-held breath, his lightly-lifted shoulders, his cautious foot-fall and nervous grasp upon the rod, are points of character such as Hogarth would embrace the artist for having painted.—dithenceum. M. SAINTON AND MADAME DOLBY have been making a successful tour in Holland. MR. BENEDicr has finished a new operetta, the title of which is " The Bride of Song." THE THEATRE AT CHAMBERY hes been destroyed by fire. 11 BRIGHTON are aptly ` described by the Spectator as FOUR, " LIBERAL" CANDIDATES FOR —Mx. Fawcett, in a man who, being respectable, could never be popular Brighton ; Mr. Julian Goldsmid, whose chief recommendation was his property within the borough; Mr. Dumas, who had no recommendation at all; and a Mr. Harper, whose claim was that he thought all Catholics must be damned. PHOTOGRAPHS BY NIGHT.—Mr. Whipple, of Boston, has produced effective photographs of the fountain on Boston Common, illuminated by the electric light. The spray of the fountain, the leaves of the trees, and the per sons under them aro distinctly rendered. HANSOM CABS have been introduced into the island of Trinidad, in the West Indies. THE ROMAN TUMULI SAVED. --The struggle of our antiquaries in favour of preserving the Roman tumuli at Bartlow has boon crowned with success. Even railway boards are not insensible to earnest and unselfish appeals on behalf of science, and the engineer of the Great Eastern Railway has contrived to lay his lines so as to avoid disturbing these Roman remains. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY and Doctor Gregg, the new Bishop of Cork—interlocutors at dinner I—Arch bishop : "Come, thoug h y ou are John Cork, you mustn't stop the bottle here." Bishop answering, not inaptly—" I see your lordship is determined to draw me out." A PUZZLING QUERY.— Question : If Brigham Young, the Mormon, were to lose ono of his GO wives, would he be a widower ? Answer ?—Not enough to hurt him, — American paper. KING KIKEHAMEHA, who died on the 30th of Novem ber, as sovereign of Hawaii, expiring of grief from the loss of his only eon, was a man of rare physical powers, of ele gant tastes, keen perceptions, who could enjoy Kingsley, Thackeray, Tennyson, and was ever quoting Shah spere, LITERATURE. Peculiar. A Tale of the Great Transition, By Epes Sargent, Edited by William Howitt. Three Vols, Hurst and Blackett. Mr. William Howitt introduces to the English public an authorised version of this new American novel, which he tells us is " flashing through the United States, like a new ' Uncle Tom'—' Peculiar' here, Peculiar there, Peculiar everywhere." Mr. Howitt himself is evidently greatly impressed with the attractive character of the work to which he stands sponsor. " What a crowd of people" he says, " What a host of new characters ! How strangely t hey talk ! If such a thing as a kaleidos copical photograph were possible, here it is ! tlemen, and men anything but gentle ; slave owners, slave-dealers, slave-markets. Ladies, and fine women who might be ladies if they had not been educated into selfish, heartless, worldly clothes , hursee—negresses, war, polities, spiritualism, ras cality in' grass-cloth' and heroes in native black— what a medley ! Yet how living, how exciting ! I feel myself drawn deeper and farther into the rushing in:erest of what I see working through the chaos." It is Mr. Sargent, of Boston, U.S., the Chambers of America, who has thus struck forth into a new vein —that great vein which yet flows only with Ame rica's best blood, but which will, for ages, flow with the thrilling reminiscences and creations of American genius. The political earthquake has for a time struck dumb all Transatlantic thinkers—there has been an awful, but a pregnant silence. Mr. Sargent Is the first to break it in his " Peculiar" way : and familiar as are all the States, united and disunited, with the great and terrible features of this domestic convulsion, has presented them with a vigour and freshness that gives a charm even to the appal ling. He says to me, continues Mr. Hewitt : " Here are my corrected sheets to the eighth edition of a work but a few days old—present them to your countrymen, and pay over the profits due to me to the fund for the relief of our wounded soldiers." The work takes its title from one of its principal characters, a slave, who is called PECULIAR INSTI TUTION, and who generally goes by the name of Peek. The story is romantic and painful in the extreme. All the horrors of the slave trade, women sold by auction, men and women stripped and flogged, and other inhuman barbarities alternately shock -nd grieve us, while, in the story of Estelle, and again in that of Clara, a revolting situation, si milar to that of Appius Claudius, and the daughter of Virginius is introduced. The work is clever, no doubt, but its perusal can afford no pleasure, and in this country, at all events, the horrors of slavery are too vividly recognised and too vehemently detested to require the additions of fiction to in crease their actual enormity. A 4 a specimen of the American " sensational" novel, " Peculiar" has, of course, its own peculiar interest, and the curious may feel indebted to Mr. Howitt for the intro due tion of a new element of excitement to the almost " used-up" sensationalists. Bella Donna, or the Cross before the Name. A Romance. By Gilbert Dyce. Two Vols Richard Bentley. A poor relation, hospitably entertained at the house of Mr. Franklyn, a country gentleman, and most affectionately treated by all his family, is the heroine of this romance. bbe, as we are led to believe, unwittingly attracts the attentions of the only son of the house, a young officer at home on leave of absence from his regiment, and nothing can apparently be more noble than her conduct, on being made acquainted with his passion. Aware of the mischief which must be done to his numerous sisters, should the heir to a deeply encumbered estate, marry without fortune, she at once apprises Mr. Franklyn of his son's proposal, and determines to quit the house, a resolution which she carries into effect in opposition to the entreaties of every member of the family, except the father, who is naturally enough disconcerted, and displeased by a discovery which prevents his accomplishing a scheme of his own, namely, his son's marriage with the daughter of a rich manufacturer, who would bring him a fortune sufficient to clear the property and provide handsomely for his daughters. The young man storms and vows that he will at once go back to India, whence he has but j ust returned under a sick certificate. And as this would bo tantamount to certain death, Mr. Franklyn consents to his mar riage, after frankly explaining to him the state of his affairs. Jenny Bell, the heroine, for some unex plained reason, stops at a railway station on her way home, where she is overtaken by her lover and one of his sisters, who announce the father's acquiescence to their union, but Jenny remains inexorable, and all they can obtain from her is, a promise that she will stay for another day where she is. Next morning old Franklyn himself appears, and at his earnest solicitation, she is induced to return as the affianced bride of his son. There is great happiness for a few days in the household, which is termi nated by thejarrival, from a visit, of Charlotte, the eldest of Mr. Franklyn's daughters. She by a quiet and clever course of reasoning points out to her brother Charles the unpleasant consequences of the step he is about to take, and induces the selfish fel low to break off the match : and then it is we get an insight into the real character of the heroine, whom we have before considered to be so amiable and so honourable. She vows revenge against the destroyer of het happiness, and places an " before her name, in a small book containing her diary. From that moment, war to the knife, is carried on be tween the ladies. Franklyn, unable to raise money for this same daughter's fortune, her match with young Craven, a baronet's son, is broken off, and the old man commits suicide. The family are driven from the house, which, with the estate, is to be sold, and are located in shabby lodgings in London, where Jenny Bell, now governess i❑ an eminent lawyer's house, discovers them, and enjoys their sufferings. The lawyer's wife is bed-ridden, and he proposes to marry Jenny at her death, but a letter she has written to young Craven, on whose heart it would appear she has a design, being shown by his wife to the barrister, she is at once expelled from the house, and we learn no thing more of her after fate. Meanwhile a rich uncle intervenes, redeems the Franklyn Estate, and Charlotte is married to young Craven. The book is written in that smart, cynical style at pre , sent so very popular—it interests, but does not instruct, and depicts only the worst side of human nature. There is not one faultless character in the story. Old Franklyn, a weak man, supposed to have committed forgery, poisons himself. The son, a heartless egotist, interferes to prevent Jenny's union with a silly Parson, who would have married her—then cruelly breaks off the match—and never afterwards appears amongst the cleanzatis persona. Sir Craven Welbore, and his wife, are very worldly, and common-place people, and their son, although the only person who exhibits con stancy, or a feeling of honour, is far from being perfect—while Charlotte is a clever dissembler, and Jenny Bell a second Becky Sharp. " Bella Donna" is a book which may amuse its readers, from the clever manner in which it is written ; yet we can not but regret that Mr. Gilbert Dyce should have employed his time and unquestionable talents in depicting the worst passions of our nature, without introducing the slightest alloy of tenderness or generosity into his sketches. Charlie Thornhill ; or; The Dunce of the Family. By Charles Clarke. Second Edition. Chapman and Hall. This is a capital book for reissue in a popular form. It is interesting as a tale, and it abounds with lively descriptions and animated adventures. The frontispiece depicts the fair Edith in that perilous moment when she is rescued from danger by the adventurous hero. Charlie is a very delightful character, and we heartily agree with Lady Montagu Mastodon in her declaration respect ing this dunce of the family, that " a man may not know the difference between Niger and Nigger, and yet get through the world remarkably Uncle Ci•otly's .Relations. By Herbert Glyn, Author of " The Cotton Lord." Two Vols. Smith, Eider, and Co. This is a very interesting, novel of the domestic class. Charlotto Crombie is n most charming, unas suming, loveable licreino. Even when for a time inveottd, with u " little brief authority" as ti sup. . . posed heiress, and again, when exp%ed to verj cl pai temptatie:l, her natural simplicitj trut.'itiLllness do Lot forsake her ; and the rau ° ": of her story heartily sympathise with her lanced', delight when love and,fortuno at length enrnbille„toi befriend her. The story of her '.ister, t h e beant" ,, ; Boa 1 but erring Kate, has a painful interest, 1 e ° perhaps, somewhat overdone, affords an ev idenc how easily one false step leads downwards nhtful struction. Uncle Crotty himself is a very delio character; and the vindictive old aunt who flgitaeriv in the early portion of the tale is very ° P delineated. to de: Passages in the Life of an Old Maid. BY T. U. One Vol., pp. 303. S4untlt:rs and OJlO°. In the opening chapter of this story the 11°eljr . little town of Dampton is startled fro m it 9 quiesf, cence by a sad railway accident. Among th e t ferers is found the dead body of an unknown This bereave: with a little infant in her arms. child is the heroine of the tale, and her advenlurie are full of interest, - and are detailed in a lice ! natural natural stle. The fair Margaret is, after I°l3 '; years, restored to her family ; but we 01011 not further betray the mystery that envelop es the elr portion of her life. --- The Life of Sir Timothy Graceless. T C. himself. Edited by Omega. Three Vols. Newby. this We must confess that the opening chapter °'iog story, wherein Sir Timothy Graceless is disno sB tor his memoirs with his alter ego, Omega, the editor of his history, did not impress us very fay" ra t be Written bit in its behalf. There is so much flippanc e ff ec t ip tone, and so much apparent striving after et• the style, as completely to defeat its e w e ° b i e ig In the body of the story, however, the an tht :c e , more natural, and, consequently, more eff ee ' l 0 Sir Timothy, the hero, is a little " wa if or st le born, like Jack Shepherd, in a prison• ultimately obtains the honourable three-le""ier prefix to his name we must leave to his biogrsP to detail at full length in the pages of his history • How I won ray Spurs ; or, a Boy's Adven tures 1 :f °r the Barons' Wars. By J. G. Edgar, ell tb " Danes, Saxons, and Normans," B.:G. (")° pp. 413, illustrated. Beeton. t 4 This book will be right welcome to the y°ll-4,00 reader. It contains some attractive chapters it-tic the romance of history during the very' r°°ltintio period of the Baron's Wars. Ralph iger//,;g t o boyish hero, himself relates his story and te ': ha how, after wondersul perils and advent ur v e ,.loo ultimately " won his spurs" at the hand of ' f " the Edward, afterwards King Edward I. ° tie ci r : of most enthralling episodes related in the o ti ' - :ith this veracious history is a night's a dventu re i . t bs the wolves. The pictorial accompaniments of narrative displaying the young hero ill t g ile nc ious porary shelter of a tree with a troop of L3r- k is wolves eagerly watching round it. Tile r a ving s plentifully illustrated with very spirited evg ll -5 5 11 by, from the pencils of R. Iluttula and S. C ' and will be an admirable gift book for a boy' Naval and Military Intelligeuce' VALETTA, Fob. 15.--Her . ' ca6e'.. a THE NAVY. A olliP Majesty's irou olive Royal Oak • Capt. F. A. CaniPbeill: ~ v as' (screw j, 35 guns, s o u n Friday to join the Mediterranean fleet, after a ' . ' ° d " bib. ra ge from Plymouth of 16 days, calling at Lisbon 811 A frac' 'far, making the voyage from the former in Of 813 7, h t 10 5 1 20 brO o b 0 , the latter in 5 days, under sail and steam. ji p .amA. ei a secle s esttn s ha. e tos, n fau g sminn e hd r uge s ne pvh L orev i oas e esvt u lteehrl t r ada. . , co l‘ hltd l 2Foie o o ernlur r sloo g eyfsml a fi3c 7 nsohcl a neeg n sur uhtdmirnemusrsis:imv: appearance construction, oae n hrd a sa: v i zn a hei naval s s n eiti P eee s ea r rt:y r i rpo i e f o:oo e rb: c i t , the b carrying 3 , rll 6 Ihe latter gunits, the station. 'ship,. is expected, w , 40 tl , " in the Mediterranean . to ba paid eff, so as to arrive in England oboist the when the Victo • • riawtll be n r e e r ad l y t, j f .e o s r t c y o ,t3 m i m ro i n ssi s o c u re t : o tore °il y t ihs 2 t. , ni I: nt l s. a t f. s ,o t Master-Commander from r C - she presentis 56fit3oifiaisshi elicapr:Bo-011: tiii... l lt i e s , t on S h a e p the l toes ' t ' IV the ot. ''' .4 fleet. The iron screw troopship Orontes, '-'s, moil- Co Corfu, f o J ul) : n ep nt afterf d o er discharging i, e sc . cho ß anr a to. w i In. ndugeendh, her h ee r i e voyage . 1 a rrived .llirger t r e Hire, vessel has not yet arrived from England. The 0,00 in our of war Conte Dandolo, which had been OM° wt. port, took her departure for Algiers Tae' it. ea lir. Her Idajesty' • s screw corvette Cossack, 20, CO 4 -, PP Holland, und is under orders to leave to-morrow for C° l. ` o . f lii ° Royal l stood she is to take up Major Shaw, an cfg eer r eV' -night in ot Engineers, who is expected to • . the ' iil from Marseilles. Other engineers are on their WI t ifico: the Orontes , to take part in the destruction of thc I r o d ' sof Vide and some of the other works in tne i $ 3 00 4 dete i r ta 5 01 Corfu, which seems to have been irrevocably upon. The expedition for the repair of thc 31 , 1 4 t I° for Alexandria telegraph cable started on Saturdcl 13 ' v is b ° the neighbourhood of Benghazi, where the is gt : t, CaP t ' , lieved to exist. The chartered steamer FannY Lalabe- OOP carried with her a sufficient qual 3t qf e ,-, OW, and all the necessary apparatus for this operation. ocociea n i fug, engineer, and Mr. de Sauty, electrician, Bev P r , o see il „ t n her with an efficient staff. Mr. Gibson, the I' 3 . ci , inspector, accompanies the expedition on behalf ° f t s - o jestl ' Government, and Lieut. Drew, R.N., from h er „ d el. li , i er . ship Hydra, is to assist in the navigation o f the T'"; iir. P A Alajesty's screw gunvessel Surprise , 4, Coninislld,e,, otio°,' L am y ''" equ itec' Whyte, has proceeded with the Fanny upon her and render any assistance that nicY r ri l)e rod 19f,; h :he local military subarine telegraph in the ur : ee , °,, our, between Forts Ricasoli and St. Angelo , I l t ir eni e ",, a t some time past out of order, and considerable °"toiciits); has been caused thereby to the garrison. C° 113111 ,.„ jos ) , was established in Dec. last, but soon aferwardc 0 - ,,,, !is ° steamer dragging her anchor again severed ;0011 Through the exertions of Mr. Gibson advantage W 610 ° ' of the presence here of the reairino• staff of ge ssr a l 3 ;1 1 0 3 : Elliot, and Co., and there is e v ery reason to belnoiesii • cable has now been effectually repaired. It le g r 'olO tt bef f : screw corvette Pelican, 17, Commander W• .- s . u v elc P io came in this afternoon from Beyrout in 12 cic9 ° , 4 ; w lie llt4 , l o 5 ; and the Pi' cans, 2. Lieut. De Robecit, " l o ogs" Rear-Admiral Yelver Lon, arrived by her. 54° heir to the of importance. .„leve “f 6 An examination of naval engineers, with a -- w ill , I , Woollol' 00;29' receiving certificates from the itev. Dr. 0 nth; f ' place at Ike Royal Naval College, Portgao at inst. 63t lit"I tt el The following appointments were made on tile fo bi the Admiralty :—Commander E. Madder; lgoiotigili3O vie 3 Watson, promoted ; Sub -Lieut. Nesbit l'n,idsllieorl to the Princess Royal ;Raymond B. NedhP3' be f er ' a le 6 to to cior 1)0 to the Edgar ; Frederick Fanfold, pay to Rear-Admiral King ; Charles T. Daws°3ll%yair to ,i 0 Mackern, assist.-paymasters in the Princes° osi6t.-PsLa secretary's clerks ; J. W. R. B. Galsworthl.',„43l°l`l.- master, to the Victory ; and S. S. C. Ilall, ' I to the Indus. 0 3 THE ARMY. of i tte i c ier' The success which attended the exhibitisn .e ' s a i A p 0 Regiment at Dublin has induced the antis at ttl att ,:ar s shot to institute a similar project, in order '" w it ". 0 g h m o a u y have some profitable occupation aril dialt1:01 abilities in inventing and making articl es to hthee ibothrrs;assewrvelilcaeasbtleeatffoortdhethem an opportu4ni purchaser an- big, 'oter the maker.tire-10e° lillricjil° ejto The principal object in 'Viet, - 0 ,0 e 3 w ill lessen the amount of crime. The project is ile ,, s bt o °l o o' l6 into by the officers, and there is not the leastds" a l tae" le' prove quite as successful as that at Dublin. Sa/.ecitito9arpe• have been held during the present week, at VI I 1 , 10 0 0 0) C o e s' tided that the officers commanding such r e g i r t in tll it tes' hibition by the members, nd form and departments as may be e willing to taka 133 ., - 1 c on° l " a tet i a geoereto coosetiaoo Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L. Yennefather, S 03" IQs g bleC. , v to be president, and general officer cohirsal'e;rd, i. o, ; ice-presidents. Lieut.-Col. the lion. 1, A A .a. l :, sr A ' Q. M. Cr. ; Lieut.-Col. Lennox, C • ? '' t • ' O , vir a , d - t rf and Major liammersley, director of grallaptsrliceads '-aler°l pointed secretaries ; and Capt. INlaclean, v o r ' 00 4 Do regulated by a 'very Brigade, and Capt, Lockhart, p•AAii'ibi'tioti I`l,oo 'very regiment taking part in the 0:11001%160r tli° court formed tioong voo ts, 1 . 113 pl ea are to make their own necessary arrsngen suc h a r ci d o cil direction of their commanding of 1 ~,ava to 0 f oto as he shall see fit. Each regiment wi ll 'iesioed 4) , 0 0 1 tools as may be required by the non. to regicecaro t1)0 and men. It was also decided that if as aoy nf3tooo:lLi quartered at Aldershot should be coders a rig o ,hose 1 / have o d P'" to exhibition was opened they should 811 _ukiiiir, ti a i t , articles to be exhibited. The privilege of elas,.sil ing things will not be confined to an y P 3 00,000,1:0 00 military, but will be open to Offi Cer '' ' ' 5 their li i ii co° officers, and men of all ranks. as well esoibiied W ood pile. children. The articles proposed to be drovinke, ,refl'; under the following heads :-Painting::i carpooiticute, t, tography ; carving, cabinet making, au, uovetreiaivr el:, military engineering, instrumento, en , u e orlis/ le : torat''e equipments ; admourere' and 000 ' ew iiibs ,°,rotate.cs an d needlework and clothwork. A sP a ,e,r,5., 0 19 ' r e ery .Aby ow " f lb° fl y the exhibition of articles colleco‘. _ roc 0 , iv or t i sioned officers, and men during the ' :I°Jiboli wipi 60101)`'.,, indifferent parts of the world. dil e e - aro Or' i e el'` 0 ocz:edingg • „ r oils ~4 4 11/ in June next, and when the Pr it ohs ' oighli'" tile the committee will decide bog prolong joial Pit` 0 ' The preceedings are eanctioned.bTiou „iiii take I' Commander-in-Chi cf. The e.-shib'tivaa iricd. 6141)heuse where Colonel COWRY' )( otlp 14 ey 114 a kt ] tt rac ItriQ